{"id":1460,"date":"2025-03-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:22:22","slug":"pokemon-on-nintendo-switch-2-is-already-off-to-a-bad-start-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/pokemon-on-nintendo-switch-2-is-already-off-to-a-bad-start-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon on Nintendo Switch 2 is already off to a bad start \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A is not the sequel to Scarlet and Violet (The Pok\u00e9mon Company)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader worries that Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> Legends: Z-A will have the same technical flaws as its predecessors and that Nintendo<\/a> is not properly preparing Pok\u00e9mon for the Switch 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Everyone\u2019s trying to guess what games will be shown at the Nintendo Direct in April, for the Nintendo Switch 2, but it doesn\u2019t seem very likely that there\u2019ll be a Gen X Pok\u00e9mon game (i.e. the sequel to Scarlet\/Violet<\/a>). It\u2019s about time for it but developer Game Freak already have Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/a> out this year, which isn\u2019t a Switch 2 game, so you\u2019d assume they haven\u2019t got time.<\/p>\n

Stupidly, they did release Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/a> and Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet\/Violet in the same year but I really hope they learned from that one. They both sold OK but they were an even bigger technical disaster than usual for Game Freak.<\/p>\n

Pok\u00e9mon is one of the biggest brands in the world, but the games are consistently the worst looking first party games on the Switch, and by a wide margin. Not just ugly and low tech but filled with bugs and low production levels, with no voice acting and just a general air of low effort laziness.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not laziness, I know that; it\u2019s because the developers are being worked to death with unreasonable schedules and not enough resources. But as a result, all the games come across as being unambitious and low budget, like an indie clone of Pok\u00e9mon rather than what you\u2019d expect of the series itself.<\/p>\n

I am not the first fan to say that Game Freak should be given more money, more people, and more time but I see no evidence that they have been. After the disaster of Scarlet and Violet they should\u2019ve committed to a longer development time for Gen X and concentrated on that and only that.<\/p>\n

But what did they do? They immediately started working on another spin-off. They will have had less than three years to make Z-A (maybe much less, depending on how long they were still making the DLC for Scarlet and Violet) and yet we know a high quality modern video game now takes at least five years, especially if the Switch 2 is more powerful. Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom took that long and it reused the same map and gameplay from the previous game!<\/p>\n

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